Saint John of Damascus

Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

Name: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
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Author: Saint John of Damascus

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8th c. · Scripture Commentary · English translation, 1890

92,173 words · 7.7 hr read· Accessible

Source edition: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II (ed. Schaff & Wace, 1890–1900)

Cover art: Le couvent de Mar-Saba — Charles William Meredith van de Velde (Dutch, 1818–1898) (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)

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Prologue
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith.
Book 1
1. That the Deity is incomprehensible, and that we ought not to pry into and…
2. Concerning things utterable and things unutterable, and things knowable and…
3. Proof that there is a God
4. Concerning the nature of Deity: that it is incomprehensible
5. Proof that God is one and not many
6. Concerning the Word and the Son of God: a reasoned proof
7. Concerning the Holy Spirit, a reasoned proof
Chapter 8.—Concerning the Holy Trinity
9. Concerning what is affirmed about God
10. Concerning divine union and separation
11. Concerning what is affirmed about God as though He had body
Chapter 12.—Concerning the Same
13. Concerning the place of God: and that the Deity alone is uncircumscribed
14. The properties of the divine nature
Book 2
Chapter 1.—Concerning Æon or Age
Chapter 2.—Concerning the Creation
Chapter 3.—Concerning Angels
4. Concerning the devil and demons
Chapter 5.—Concerning the Visible Creation
Chapter 6.—Concerning the Heaven
7. Concerning light, fire, the luminaries, sun, moon and stars
Chapter 8.—Concerning Air and Winds
Chapter 9.—Concerning the Waters
10. Concerning earth and its products
Chapter 11.—Concerning Paradise
Chapter 12.—Concerning Man
Chapter 13.—Concerning Pleasures
Chapter 14.—Concerning Pain
Chapter 15.—Concerning Fear
Chapter 16.—Concerning Anger
Chapter 17.—Concerning Imagination
Chapter 18.—Concerning Sensation
Chapter 19.—Concerning Thought
Chapter 20.—Concerning Memory
Chapter 21.—Concerning Conception and Articulation
Chapter 22.—Concerning Passion and Energy
Chapter 23.—Concerning Energy
24. Concerning what is Voluntary and what is Involuntary
25. Concerning what is in our own power, that is, concerning Free-will
Chapter 26.—Concerning Events
27. Concerning the reason of our endowment with Free-will
28. Concerning what is not in our hands
Chapter 29.—Concerning Providence
Chapter 30.—Concerning Prescience and Predestination
Book 3
1. Concerning the Divine Œconomy and God’s care over us, and concerning our…
2. Concerning the manner in which the Word was conceived, and concerning His…
3. Concerning Christ’s two natures, in opposition to those who hold that He has…
4. Concerning the manner of the Mutual Communication
5. Concerning the number of the Natures
6. That in one of its subsistences the divine nature is united in its entirety…
7. Concerning the one compound subsistence of God the Word
8. In reply to those who ask whether the natures of the Lord are brought under…
9. In reply to the question whether there is Nature that has no Subsistence
10. Concerning the Trisagium (“the Thrice Holy”)
11. Concerning the Nature as viewed in Species and in Individual, and…
12. That the holy Virgin is the Mother of God: an argument directed against the…
13. Concerning the properties of the two Natures
14. Concerning the volitions and free-will of our Lord Jesus Christ
15. Concerning the energies in our Lord Jesus Christ
16. In reply to those who say “If man has two natures and two energies, Christ…
17. Concerning the deification of the nature of our Lord’s flesh and of His will
18. Further concerning volitions and free-wills: minds, too, and knowledges and…
Chapter 19.—Concerning the Theandric Energy
20. Concerning the natural and innocent passions
Chapter 21.—Concerning Ignorance and Servitude
Chapter 22.—Concerning His Growth
Chapter 23.—Concerning His Fear
24. Concerning our Lord’s Praying
Chapter 25.—Concerning the Appropriation
26. Concerning the Passion of our Lord’s body, and the Impassibility of His…
27. Concerning the fact that the divinity of the Word remained inseparable from…
Chapter 28.—Concerning Corruption and Destruction
29. Concerning the Descent to Hades
Book 4
1. Concerning what followed the Resurrection
2. Concerning the sitting at the right hand of the Father
3. In reply to those who say “If Christ has two natures, either ye do service…
4. Why it was the Son of God, and not the Father or the Spirit, that became…
5. In reply to those who ask if Christ’s subsistence is create or uncreate
6. Concerning the question, when Christ was called
7. In answer to those who enquire whether the holy Mother of God bore two…
8. How the Only-begotten Son of God is called first-born
Chapter 9.—Concerning Faith and Baptism
Chapter 10.—Concerning Faith
11. Concerning the Cross and here further concerning Faith
12. Concerning Worship towards the East
13. Concerning the holy and immaculate Mysteries of the Lord
14. Concerning our Lord’s genealogy and concerning the holy Mother of God
15. Concerning the honour due to the Saints and their remains
Chapter 16.—Concerning Images
Chapter 17.—Concerning Scripture
18. Regarding the things said concerning Christ
19. That God is not the cause of evils
20. That there are not two Kingdoms
21. The purpose for which God in His foreknowledge created persons who would…
22. Concerning the law of God and the law of sin
23. Against the Jews on the question of the Sabbath
Chapter 24.—Concerning Virginity
Chapter 25.—Concerning the Circumcision
Chapter 26.—Concerning the Antichrist
Chapter 27.—Concerning the Resurrection

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